Incredibly talented gospel music singer Guy Penrod turned in a stirring live performance of “Then Came the Morning.”

Without Jesus Christ, no one would have even the slightest glimmer of hope. Everyone on Earth would be condemned and forced to spend their days lost in their sin and shame. All would be destined and looking at spending eternity in hell.

But because God has an indescribable amount of love for humanity and saw the absolute mess that humans had made, He sent His one and only Son. Jesus Christ, sent to a virgin, would grow up and eventually become a willing sacrifice, laying down His life for you and me. He endured a horrible, agonizing and humiliating death and later rose again so that you and I might not be lost.

Because of Jesus Christ, we can be forgiven, have our sins wiped away and one day experience everlasting life. That’s a debt we’ll never be able to repay. It’s a gift we haven’t done and will never do anything to be worthy of it.

In the clip, Guy brings the house down with his powerful performance of “Then Came the Morning.” The tune’s lyrics perfectly capture the doom and gloom that followers of Jesus had to be feeling immediately following His death on Calvary.

But that is not the end of the story. Praise God!

As the song title indicates, then came the morning. The stone had been rolled away, and Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, was alive.

The chorus mentions how dread and despair soon turned into hope and joy.

“Then came the morning

Night turned into day

The stone was rolled away

Hope rose with the dawn”

Because of Christ’s sacrifice, while we were still sinners, we now have hope. That hope, love and forgiveness are still freely available and offered to all.

Romans 5:8 “But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.”